and Canada, across all of Scholastic’s channels. To date the books boast a combined total of more than one million copies in print in the U.S. The Bad Guys have enjoyed a warm reception in the States and have become an immediate hit. market this past January with Scholastic’s publication of The Bad Guys, quickly followed by The Bad Guys #2: The Bad Guys in Mission Unpluckable in March, and the May release of The Bad Guys #3: The Bad Guys in The Furball Strikes Back. The series, a top performer for Scholastic Australia since its 2015 debut, landed in the U.S. These elements collided one evening in my head and the Bad Guys were born. “And this happened to coincide with an impulse of mine to create a story about a group of misunderstood characters bonded together by the prejudice of others. “My boys were deeply interested in badass animals-I believe that’s the scientific term-like sharks and snakes,” Blabey said of his inspiration for the books. That’s one of the pillars upon which Blabey builds his comedy about a crew of notoriously scary animal pals (a wolf, a snake, a shark, and a piranha) who want to change their image. The “bad guys” who star in Australian author-illustrator Aaron Blabey’s fast-selling Bad Guys series of graphic novels for early readers aren’t really bad-they’re just misunderstood.
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